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Fela Kuti and Shlomo Carlebach are not an obvious pairing. But Zion80 do a masterful mash-up of the Jewish counterculture icon and the late Nigerian superstar.
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Singer Basya Schechter is not some naive Jewish singer doing a world music mash-up. Her latest release is a collection of Yiddish songs that showcase her distinctive sound.
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It’s easy to laugh at reports of music-banning in China or by fundamentalists groups. But ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis have also sought to ban music they find distasteful.
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